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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==

* The "era-specific title" of [[~~WWE~~|John Laurinaitis]]'s regime as general manager of both ''[[WWE Raw|Raw]]'' and ''[[WWE Smackdown|Smackdown]]'' is called "[[Blatant Lies|People Power]]".

* The "era-specific title" of [[World Wrestling Entertainment|John Laurinaitis]]'s regime as general manager of both ''[[WWE Raw|Raw]]'' and ''[[WWE Smackdown|Smackdown]]'' is called "[[Blatant Lies|People Power]]".

== Radio ==

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* Averted with the [[Bangladesh|People's Republic of Bangladesh]], which is by most measurements considered to be a legitimate- though still somewhat corrupt- democracy.

* The Liberal Democratic Party of Russia. In fact, it's a fascist party that was engineered during the collapse of the Soviet Union as a sort of stalking horse for the CPSU and KGB to use to split the liberal vote. It's now mostly a [[Cult of Personality]] around its showmanlike leader, who uses a lot of opposition rhetoric [[Rule-Abiding Rebel|but actually tends to vote with Putin and United Russia when it comes to policymaking]]).

* The Liberal Democratic Party of Russia. In fact, it's a fascist party that was engineered during the collapse of the Soviet Union as a sort of stalking horse for the CPSU and KGB to use to split the liberal vote. It's now mostly a [[Cult of Personality]] around its showmanlike leader, who uses a lot of opposition rhetoric [[Rule-Abiding Rebel|but actually tends to vote with Putin and United Russia when it comes to policymaking]].

* An Argentine military coup that deposed President Juan Perón was named "Revolución Libertadora" (in Spanish, "Liberating revolution"). Besides being a military coup, unlike Perón—who was chosen by the people in free elections—the "Libertadora" banned the very mention of Perón's name (as well as eventually committing a large number of war crimes). Yes, exactly as it sounds.